Our Facilities

Markin/CNRL Natural Resources Engineering Facility (NREF)

The Department and School are located in the Markin/CNRL Natural Resources Engineering Facility (NREF). Constructed in 2004, NREF houses 78 research laboratories, 26 specialized instructional laboratories, and many state-of-the-art lecture rooms.

Our research labs and facilities allow our students access to leading edge technology and equipment including:

Ellerslie Hyudraulics Laboratory (located on the university farms) equipment: mixed flume; tilting flume and a curved (S) flume for studying flow in bends. This lab is traditionally used for model studies

Ichthyo-Hydraulics or I-H flume was developed to allow volitational fish responses under controlled conditions and assist with observations

25-metre long flume can be tilted to 1% slope; has 9 flume sections and white boards are identical spacers to hold the glass in place

Mine Waste Laboratory Cold Room

4 walk-in freezers and 2 walk-in coolers

Constant temperature baths

Large capacity chiller used for in-lab ground freezing

Data acquisition systems and freezing/consolidation cells

Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility (OSTRF)

Designed to process tailing slurries at 600 kg solids per hour and 2000 kg solids per hour

Is an intermediate scale continuous-flow-through facility capable of accommodating a number of interdisciplinary research projects concurrently

Consists of three independent modules for delivery/production, treatment and deposition of tailings